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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Robert Ewing

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farmer in Lancaster County, he enlisted and mustered into service as a Private in Company G, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on 17 December 1861 in Philadelphia. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged when his term expired, probably in 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Card File 1 and Bates.2 Wound information from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1843

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23470]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23471]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 304 [AotW citation 23472]

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